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POLITICS

Are the Japanese mulling a new immigration policy ?
The Japanese under the leadership of Shinzo Abe are mulling a new immigration policy to counter the ageing population. This was made clear by Dr Teizo Takenaka advisor to the Japanese PM during his lecture titled Abenomics and the resurgance of Japan's Economy. He said immigration is an option that will be discussed by the Japanese polity amongst issues like tying up with emerging economy like India.

Did Tharoor asked for an exorbitant payment for a book release ?
It is heard that Shashi Tharoor demanded Rs 7 lacs to release a book by Rwanda High Commission titled Pegs of Life. However the High Commission approached SS Palam Raju to release the same and Tharoor was left waiting for the confirmation from Rwandans.

BUREAUCRACY

HM clears file of two Railway GMs
The Home Minister has cleared the appointment file of two Railway GMs Devi Pandey and Pramod Kumar on Monday.

Deepak Agrawal is new PS to Jitin Prasad
Deepak Agrawal has been appointed new Private Secretary to Union Minister of State HRD Jitin Prasad. He is 2000 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre.
(We said this on Feb 16, 2013)

Total number of SC Judges will now be 30
After the appointment of two new Judges the Supreme Court will have 30 judges, against the sanctioned strength of 31.

PESB recommends posting of CMD, SIL on deputation basis
Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) has not found anyone suitable candidate for the post of CMD, Scooters India Limited (SIL) and recommended to explore the possibility of appointing a candidate on deputation basis.

C S Verma wins as new elected Chairperson of SCOPE
C S Verma, reportedly, makes it as the new elected Chairperson of SCOPE. The Electoral College had the strength of 210 nos. of voters. Verma is heading the SAIL as CMD whereas the second contender for the slot is V P Agrawal who is CMD, Airports Authority of India. SCOPE is the apex body of over 240 Central Public Sector Enterprises which forms the backbone of Public sector in India and its economy.

K L Dhingra makes hat-trick, again elected Vice Chairman, SCOPE
K L Dhingra, CMD of ITI Limited, Mangalore, has been elected Vice Chairman, SCOPE, for third time in a row - in 209, 2011 and 2013. This is the second time that he has won with the highest margin despite being CMD of a loss making PSU. CMDs of seven profit making PSUs were also in the fray for the said post.

19 new Board Members of SCOPE elected
As many as 19 candidates have been elected as the Board Members of Standing Conference of Public Enterprise (SCOPE). They are Dr A K Balyan, MD & CEO, Petronet LNG Ltd; Nirmal Sinha, CMD, Handicrafts & Handlooms Exports Corporation of India; AA Naqvi, MD, National Backward Classes Finance & Development Corporation; Jaiveer Srivastava, CMD, Hindustan Prefab Limited;A M K Sinha, Director (P&BD) Indian Oil Corporation; R P Tak, CMD, Cement Corporation of India Limited; R Mohan Das, Director (P&IR), Coal India Ltd; R K Sinha, Director (HR), National Textile Corporation Ltd; M Ravi Kanth, CMD,
Projects & Development India Ltd; Radheshyam Mina, Director (Pers.), NHPC Ltd; M M Sharma, Director (Pers), State Trading Corporation of India Ltd; S P S Bakshi, CMD, Engineering Projects (India) Ltd; Malay Chatterjee, CMD, KIOCL Ltd; K S Jamestin, Director (HR), Oil & Natural Gas Corporation Ltd; R K Gupta, CMD, WAPCOS Ltd; B B Pattanaik, MD, Central Warehousing Corporation; R G Rajan, CMD, Rashtriya Chemicals & Fertilizers Ltd; M.L. Shanmukh, Director (HR), Bharat Electronics Ltd and Anoop Kumar Mittal, Director (Projects), National Buildings Construction Corporation Ltd.

Mrs Poonam Juneja is Joint Secretary, Defence in GoI
Mrs Poonam Juneja, an officer of SGSL, of Central Secretariat Service, has been appointed as Joint Secretary (in-situ) in the Ministry of Defence in Government of India.

Capt Baveja is VC of IMU Chennai
Former head of the Indian National Base Centre, Sea Farers Mumbai, Capt. Mukesh Baveja has taken over as Vice Chancellor of the Indian Maritime University, Chennai .

P K Singh is Accountant General (Audit), CAG, Patna
P K Singh, Principal Director of Commercial Audit & Ex-Officio Member, Audit Board-III, New Delhi, has been transferred and posted as Accountant General (Audit), Bihar, Patna under the office of the Comptroller & Auditor General of India.

New Judges of Manipur High Court
Justice Abhay Manohar Sapre is the Chief Justice of the newly created Minipur High Court. Former judge of Gauhati High Court Justice Nongmeikappam Kotiswar Singh has moved to the Manipur High Court. Two new Judges will be appointed soon.

New Judges of Tripura High Court
Justice Deepak Gupta has been sworn in as Chief Justice of the newly created Tripura High Court.Three other judges rae Justice Shubhasish Talapatra, Justice Swapan Das and Justice Utpalendu Bikash Saha.

New Judges of Meghalaya High Court
Justice T. Meena Kumari has been sworn in as the first woman Chief Justice of newly constituted Meghalaya High Court today. Justices T. Nandakumar Singh and Sudip Ranjan Sen are other two Judges.

Jamuda to join GoI ?
Ranglal is likely to go on central deputation later this year. He is 1981 batch IAS officer of Orissa cadre.

A K Vohra to retire in April
Member (Staff) in the Railway Board A K Vohra is retiring by April end.

Post of MD in CCIL vacant
The post of Managing Director, on deputation basis for a period of five years, is vacant in the Central Cottage Industries Corporation of India Limited (CCICIL). Those willing to apply may send their applications, along-with vigilance clearance and cadre clearance for five years, to the Deputy Secretary (CCIC), Ministry of Textiles, New Delhi, by April 15, 2013.

CORPORATE

PSEs to hold 4th Public Sector Day celebration from April 10
The Chairman and Director General SCOPE addressed the media persons at its Headquarters. Underlining the aspirations, vision and crucial issues pertaining to the brighter future of CPSEs, Arup Roy Choudhury, Chairman SCOPE and CMD NTPC, said that the PSEs all over the country will be celebrating the 4th Public Sector Day Celebration from April 10 to April 16. President of India, he said, shall grace the concluding day function as Chief Guest and would present the SCOPE Meritorious Awards in Specialized Fields on April 13, at Vigyan Bhawan. Choudhury, underlining the initiatives taken during his tenure, said that it was their passionate effort which earned the Prime Minister's consent to meet the CMDs of PSEs every six months on the issues of empowerment, autonomy, improvement in MoU system, succession planning and barriers to expeditious approval/execution of projects etc. The next such meeting with PM would take place likely by June this year, indicated Choudhury. Representation of SCOPE on the panel of experts of Roongta Committee and formation of Committee of Secretaries representing PSEs are such substantial achievements, he pointed to. Dr U D Choubey, Director General, SCOPE said that SCOPE has been constantly striving to enhance the image of PSEs by highlighting their contribution, performance and achievements. He made it a point that PSEs have been mandatorily earmarking two percent of
their net profit towards CSR which has started culminating into the betterment of weaker sections of the society and is worth emulating by the Corporates in the country as well.

NBCC inks annual MoU with its Ministry
NBCC, a Mini Ratna Schedule 'A' PSE, under the Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD), Government of India (GoI), has signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the Financial Year 2013-14 with MoUD. The annual MoU has been signed by Dr. Sudhir Krishna, IAS, Secretary (UD), GoI, on behalf of the MoUD and Vishnu P Das, CMD, NBCC, on behalf of NBCC. The MoU for 2013-14 sets out certain performance targets for the Company based on financial parameters, dynamic parameters, sector specific and enterprise specific parameters. While sales, has been targeted at Rs.3600 Crore, Gross Margin for the Company has been set at Rs.173 Crore. The MoU also provides for implementation of some key projects under CSR, and sustainable development.

Maroo is DMD of JSPL
Sushil Maroo has been appointed by the Jindal Steel and Power Ltd (JSPL) as Deputy Managing Director of the company from April 1.

Krishnakumar appointed ED
L. Krishnakumar has been appointed by the Tata Global Beverages Ltd as Executive Director with effect from April 1.

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Whose brain wave is this?

I have seen the comment in forum about ACO in BSF. What is this supposed to mean? Does it mean that units will not be moving as a single entity? Whose brain wave is this? Do they not know that it is this cohesion of unit functioning that makes the BSF a unique force. It is this cohesion and the officers knowing their troops intimately that gives BSF the distinction of being the only force not to have ever revolted. In any case what is the rationale of this new policy? Would somebody please explain?

Avtar

Issue is not about reservation at Secretary level

There is no reservation after Class I posts. So, the issue was not about reservation at Secretary level, it was about to know how only general castes reach the top positions. It seems like a well organized system wherein merit is ultimately and only found in general caste officers. Inspite open corruption cases and court cases, general castes reach positions of secretary. This miracle in selective promotions has led to common belief in non-general castes civil servants that there is something fishy. When this organized system of selective promotions is reformed, automatically all will reach to the level of secretary irrespective of one's caste.

Singh R K